Po­lice said the man was with oth­ers at Wal­lace Road, Chi­napoo Vil­lage, around 5.30 p.m. when a white Toy­ota Aqua pulled up. Some­one in­side the ve­hi­cle opened fire, hit­ting him sev­er­al times be­fore dri­ving off.

The body of a woman was found around 6:30 am to­day in a pond in San­gre Grande. It had been chopped up, placed in a black suit­case, and dumped.

Suri­name’s first fe­male pres­i­dent, Jen­ny Si­mons, was sworn in as the coun­try’s first fe­male pres­i­dent, along­side Gre­go­ry Rus­land, who was in­au­gu­rat­ed as vice pres­i­dent. 

A fire en­gulfed a new­ly opened shop­ping cen­tre in east­ern Iraq, killing more than 60 peo­ple, in­clud­ing chil­dren, Iraqi of­fi­cials said Thurs­day.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les is voic­ing se­ri­ous con­cern over what he de­scribes as an im­bal­anced eth­nic and racial com­po­si­tion among the new­ly ap­point­ed State boards un­der the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment.

New­ly ap­point­ed Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) chair­man Pe­ter Kan­hai says one of his first pri­or­i­ties will be to as­sess the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s fi­nan­cial po­si­tion with the fis­cal year draw­ing to a close at the end of this month.

For­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) chair­man Joel Ed­wards has of­fi­cial­ly de­nied al­le­ga­tions that he ad­vised the com­pa­ny’s of­fi­cials that the then-cab­i­net had ap­proved the three-year ex­ten­sion of con­tracts days be­fore the Gen­er­al Elec­tion on April 28. 

With just $100 left in her wal­let, fired CEPEP work­er De­siree Lopez has been pray­ing that she and her three chil­dren will not end up home­less dur­ing their school hol­i­days.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, has iden­ti­fied se­vere un­der­staffing as the root cause of many chal­lenges faced by the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is de­fend­ing the award of a $3 mil­lion con­tract to a com­pa­ny al­leged­ly linked to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), in­sist­ing it was nec­es­sary to ur­gent­ly ad­dress a wa­ter con­t­a­m­i­na­tion cri­sis af­fect­ing Point Fortin res­i­dents—and had noth­ing to do with the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

The T&T In­com­ing Tour Op­er­a­tors As­so­ci­a­tion (TTI­TOA) has re­ject­ed what it de­scribes as an un­bal­anced por­tray­al of the coun­try in a re­cent ar­ti­cle pub­lished by The Tele­graph in the Unit­ed King­dom.

Bet­ter roads, a re­li­able wa­ter sup­ply, jobs for young peo­ple, and stronger sup­port for farm­ers topped the list of con­cerns raised by res­i­dents of Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties, dur­ing a pre-bud­get con­sul­ta­tion host­ed by MP Shiv­an­na Sam on Tues­day.